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Engedan fell on his face before the king, as is ufual, 

 while the king went on feriouily — " War you want ; do 

 you, Yagoube? war you lliall have; it is not far diflant, 

 and Engedan is come to tell us how near." They then went 

 into a confiderable converfation about Guflio, Powuflen,- and 

 the preparations they were making, and where. they were, 

 with which I Ihall not trouble the reader, as I fhall have an 

 occafion to fpeak of the particulars afterwards as they arife. . 

 " I want Confu, fays the king ,-^.1 want him to fend his men 

 of Ras el Feel to Sennaar,. and to the Baharnagaili to get 

 horfes and fome coats of mail. And what do you think of 

 fending Yagoube there? he knows their manners and their 

 language, and has friends there to whom he is intending to 

 efcape, without fo much as alking my leave." — " Pardon 

 me. Sir, faid I ; if I have ever entertained that thought, it is 

 proof fufficient of the extreme neceffity 1 am under to go." 

 *' Sir, fays Engedan, I have rode in the Koccob horfe ; I will 

 do fo again, if Yagoube commands them, and- will ftay with 

 us till we try the horfe of Begemder. I have eight or ten 

 coats of mail, which I will give your majefty ; they belong- 

 ed to my father, Confu, and I took them lately from that 

 thief Abou Barea, with whom they were left at my father's 

 death ; but I will tell your Majefty, 1 had rather figlit naked 

 without a coat of mail, than that you fliouid fend Yagoube 

 to Sennaar to purchafe them from thence, for he will never ' 

 return.". 



Ras Michael was now announced, and we made hafte to 

 get away. I would have Confu, Engedan, and you, come 

 here to-morrow night, fays the king, as foon as it is dark; 

 and do not you, Yagoube, for your life, fpeak one word of 

 Semiaar, till you know my will upon it. He faid this in the 



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